Of Sanctioned Rumination

Rumination, defined:

1.) a deep or considered thought about something; the action or process of thinking deeply about something.

2.) the action of chewing the cud.

Among my therapist’s many print-outs was the phrase, “Chewing the cud,” which, until I had the occasion – after listening to Dr. Mithu Storoni discuss her book, STRESS PROOF, and the status of rumination as one of the foundations of chronic stress, on the Art of Manliness podcast – to look up the actual definition of rumination, I...